RFK Jr. Sparks Vaccine Chaos | Bad News For Disney Fans | Why Trump Hates Windmills

Welcome, welcome one and all to The Late Show. I'm your host Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen, how's everybody feeling?

Feeling good?

All right, well that may not last. Thanks to our Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr., I gotta say, health and human services is a bit of an odd title for him because he looks neither healthy nor human. Oh, that reminds me,

before you put your barbecue away this winter, you really got to clean the grill. Speaking of which, fall is coming. That means cold weather. And a lot of people are thinking about vaccines. Well, think again, lot of people,

because thanks to new vaccine rules from Bobby Jr., CVS and Walgreens are clamping down on offering COVID vaccines in more than a dozen states.

What?

Ooh!

But that's why we go to drugstores to get medicine, vaccines, family-sized bags of mini Snickers, school supplies, Christmas ornaments, personal massagers, a pallet of Yoo-Hoo, and tuna in a pouch.

You know, drugstores.

Get that, get that.

That's enough for a pretty good weekend. Okay. I didn't get that. I was not gonna get that.

That's enough for a pretty good weekend. Because of the growing chaos throughout our public health agencies, today, RFK Jr. was hauled before the Senate. Now, Bobby seemed to be experiencing more upper respiratory distress than usual today.

Listen to Mr. Health breathing into the microphone off-camera while one of the senators speaks.

So I appreciate you commenting on that. In the last few, in the last minute and ten seconds that I have with you.

I've never heard someone have sleep apnea while they're still awake. That is a lot of labored breathing into a microphone. Do we have a footage from RF.F.K. Jr.'s opening statement? No.

I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew O.J. Simpson came to my house. I remember Bill Cosby came to my house.

He looks good. He actually looks pretty good. Wow. That's for him.

Good for him.

The former head of the CDC, the one who just got fired, wrote a scathing op-ed today saying that she was forced out for not rubber stamping RFK's anti-vaccine policies. But old brain-worn McGillicuddy remembered it a little differently.

Would you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign?

No, I told her that she had to resign because I asked her, are you a trustworthy person? And she said no.

Okay, then why did you believe her? Come on, come on. Okay. Then why did you believe her?

Come on.

Come on.

She just told you she's untrustworthy.

It took me a long time.

It's taken me three years.

It wasn't just Democrats going over Bobby, they're going after Bobby today. This is Wyoming Republican Senator and physician John Barrasso, who this year voted to confirm Kennedy. I support vaccines.

I'm a doctor. Vaccines work.

Then why'd you vote for the anti-vax guy? Come on.

Look.

Look, I'm no doctor, but your results are in, and you just tested positive for bulls***. Earlier this year, earlier this year, Kennedy fired 17 members of the vaccine advisory panel. And yesterday he said he plans to add seven new members to that panel. Of the seven new members to that panel.

Of the seven new members, five of them are physicians. And as for the rest, these are my two ravens.

They understand.

Get that beak in there. As you can imagine, RFK's picks are the creme de la cuckoo, including Katherine Stein, an epidemiology professor who called for an end to vaccine mandates at universities. Also Dr. Kirk Milhoun, a cardiologist who incorrectly claimed that vaccines contributed to rising infant mortality.

And Dr. John Guy-Tanis, a pediatric neurologist who served as an expert witness for families who believed they were harmed by vaccines. Why do all those descriptions start out promising and end up crazy? We'll also be adding Dr. Bethany Smith,

a pulmonologist who believes that asthma can be cured by human sacrifice. And Dr. Jeff Johnson, a kidney specialist who was in a common law marriage with a marmoset. It's not just about vaccines. RFK Jr. says a lot of weird things.

Last week, at an event in Texas, he said this about children. I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges with inflammation.

That might be the creepiest way I've ever heard someone get their point across. Hello. Before you judge anything I have to say keep in mind I go to the airport and stare at your children and their troubled mitochondria. The vaccine chaos has not stopped with the feds. Yesterday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Latipo made this announcement. The Florida Department of Health,

in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates

in Florida law.

All of them. All of them.

What an insane thing to cheer for. Come on. Who was in that room? Jim, play that again with a shot of the audience.

The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida.

All of them. All of them.

Makes sense.

Wow.

Latipo.

Yeah, seemed good. They seem healthy. Ladipo made this insane statement about vaccine mandates.

Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body?

You're a doctor! That's who you are! Look at your name tag! You're supposed to tell us what goes in our bodies. Your job, sir, your job, your job is to tell me to cut down on salt,

and my job is to pretend that I did that. The biggest immediate effect of all of this will be on schools. Right now, Florida mandates that students have to be vaxxed against polio, diptheria, measles, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus, also known as diseases that should only come up in Oregon Trail. Although they have now updated that video game, so the most common message is, you have died of Florida.

It is...

I got something. I got something. There you go.

Now, it's hard.

It is hard to overstate how bad this is for everyone who is in Florida or knows anyone in Florida who enjoys living in a world where you don't have to have 14 children because half of them get taken by viruses

with names like the King's Evil or the Galloping Run. This is taking our country so far backwards because keep in mind, US school vaccination laws have been around since the 1850s when they were put in place to prevent smallpox and they worked.

You know how I know? Because I didn't die of smallpox.

Yet.

And it's not just kids. It's not just kids. This will also impact America's most vulnerable population, Disney adults. This is true. I didn't... I was... This is true.

Infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about Disney vacations. Yeah, everyone knows you can't get sick at Disney. They only got one duck. And he's got his hands full with Sneezy and a drug addict named Dopey.

Speaking of diseases, speaking of diseases Americans caught from Florida, Donald Trump. The president... Trump is concerned with something he finds far more dangerous than disease. Big ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood.

The windmills. The windmills that don't work when you need them. The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously. You want to see a bird cemetery, just go under a windmill.

You want to see a bird cemetery? You want to see a bird widow and her veil crying over the casket? An open casket. I don't know why they made that choice. It looks like a mess in there. She's squawking. It should have been me all while throwing up in her little baby's mouth because they're hungry and Papa Bird isn't there anymore. He was murdered.

It was bird murder. It was birder. Rest in beak, everybody. Thanks to the wind. Rest in beak, everybody. Thanks to the wind... Rest in... Trump has... Trump has hated windmills.

Trump has hated windmills ever since 2011 when he unsuccessfully tried to stop an offshore wind farm from being built near one of his Scottish golf courses. Now he's taking his revenge. This week, the White House ordered its agencies to escalate the fight against offshore wind.

Yes, the fight against wind has begun! Mimes of America, assemble!

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Do mimes do that? Mimes did. I don't know what that means. Trump is putting together a crack squad to find reasons to attack wind power. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Howard Lutnick, and Pete Hegseth are part of a departmental coalition team to investigate the risks from offshore wind farms. Investigate them well, boys. Get right up close under those spinning turbines.

Just really let in, okay? Get in there. Maybe you'll see a bird cemetery. We've got a great

show for you tonight. My guests are Drew Barrymore and NPR CEO Catherine Barr. But we'll come

back. Meanwhile, Jordan is 1-2. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪